I don’t know too much about Lou Dobbs but if I were to judge him only by what he says in this interview I’d hafta say I kinda like the guy(gotta use the stinky Real player to listen, though):
http://wfan.com/imusinstantreplay/local_audioclip_025103202.html

from Tom Tomorrows blog:
Help me brainstorm
Inspired by a commenter — how many times have the Bushies claimed executive privilege and refused to release info?
So far I’ve got:
– 9/11 preparedness
– Katrina preparedness
– Cheney’s (energy) task force
– extent of contact with Ken Lay
– extent of contact with Abramoff
– John Roberts correspondence
…oh, and of course, the specifics of [...]

Well, we’ze iz goin’ to Japan for about a week. Catch ya on the flip flop*, YO!
*Bob Odenkirk

It is reported that migrant workers usually have to sit for dozens of hours on the trains when traveling home for the new year. The train is packed full of people, even the bathrooms are packed with standing passengers. Unable to use the bathroom when needed may be a very embarrassing situation, especially for a [...]

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Well, this might be a slightly odd sounding entry but… I was just thinking….
My perception of the future(technology and design in relation to generational time frames(can I say something like that and have it make sense?)) has always been that things evolve over long periods(in relation to a human lifetime) and it takes a good [...]

Like the plot of a sci-fi B movie, something weird is happening deep underground where the constant spin of Earth’s liquid metallic core generates an invisible magnetic force field that shields our planet from harmful radiation in space. Gradually, the field is growing weaker. Could we be heading for a demagnetized doomsday that will leave [...]

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I’m sure you’ll see this everywhere(I hope so) but I just thought this story should be plastered all over the internet. So I’m sticking it here too to be extra, super redundant:
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave [...]

This is stupid and meaningless post about nothing.But every once in a while, when i sort through my junk mail folder to make sure nothing important got censored, a piece of spam makes me chuckle. Like this one from “Gilbert”
From: “Gilbert” Subject: your chance
Hello my dear friend,I was looking through the web few [...]

The subject in question was the constitutional protections the American public has against government spying–surely a vital thing to understand for the former head of the nation’s top surveillance agency, and the person currently in charge of “overseeing the day-to-day activities of the national intelligence program,” as his Air Force bio states. Those protections are [...]

An excellent animated film / counter-propaganda.
I’ve seen a couple of these movies, and they are all awesome. Someone really does a great job of storyboarding these.
[LAFKON] - A movie about Trusted Computing.

This Steven Colbert interview sums up pretty well where we’re at with politics and deception, duplicity right now in this country:
SC: Absolutely. The whole idea of authority—authoritarian is fine for some people, like people who say “Listen to me, and just don’t question, and do what I say, and everything will be fine”—the sort of [...]

OMNIPOTENT PRESIDENT

Q. Things sure have changed since the innocent days of mutually assured destruction! But is it legal for the president to ignore the law?A. Maybe not according to plain ol stupid ol regular law, but we’re at war! You don’t go to war with regular laws, which are made outta red tape and bureaucracy [...]

This new Firefox extension is like getting a whole new browser. I highly recommend it:https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1942&application=firefox

Japanese salary man robot crawls for his next beer.

MYSTERY LINK

Someone was kind enough to translate Russian Duck Tales:
LINKSKI

I just noticed the list of unfinished drafts I have in word press. It’s kinda funny. Ohhh man, what an intellectually stimulating blog this one is:

Check it

I’m sorta scared about the idea of some of these people who work for us coming back to the U.S. and being civilians again:
It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western [...]